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The Odd Couple
In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.
1968 · Directed by Gene Saks · 106 min · Comedy · 8 frames
Tagline
...say no more.
Crew
- Screenplay: Neil Simon
- Cinematography: Robert B. Hauser
- Edited by: Frank Bracht
- Music: Neal Hefti
- Produced by: Howard W. Koch
Cast
- Jack Lemmon as Felix Ungar
- Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison
- John Fiedler as Vinnie
- Herb Edelman as Murray
- David Sheiner as Roy
- Monica Evans as Cecily
- Carole Shelley as Gwendolyn
- Iris Adrian as Waitress
- Billie Bird as Chambermaid (uncredited)
- Angelique Pettyjohn as Go-go Dancer (uncredited)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $1,200,000
- Box office: $44,527,234
- Themes: new york city, roommates, male friendship, based on play or musical, obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd), poker game, divorced man, 1960s, eccentric man, neat freak
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